John 10:18

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

Cross References (22)

  • Hebrews 2:9 (12)

    But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered deat

  • Titus 2:14 (12)

    He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zeal

  • John 2:19–21 (11)

    Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

  • John 10:17 (11)

    The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.

  • John 14:31 (10)

    But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go

  • Hebrews 5:6–9 (9)

    And in another passage God says: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

  • John 6:38 (9)

    For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

  • Isaiah 53:10–12 (9)

    Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will

  • Hebrews 10:6–10 (8)

    In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.

  • Philippians 2:6–8 (8)

    Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

  • John 15:10 (8)

    If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His

  • Matthew 26:53–56 (7)

    Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angel

  • John 10:11 (7)

    I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

  • Psalms 40:6–8 (7)

    Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not re

  • Acts 3:15 (6)

    You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.

  • Acts 2:24 (6)

    But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep Him

  • John 5:30 (6)

    I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the

  • Acts 2:32 (5)

    God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

  • John 18:5–6 (5)

    “Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. Jesus said, “I am He.” And Judas His betrayer was standing there with them.

  • John 10:15 (5)

    just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

  • Hebrews 2:14–15 (5)

    Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him

  • John 19:11 (5)

    Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who hande